mote parts of Bengal, and my Calcutta printers do not under- 

 stand one word of Latin : the consequence is that it has occupied 

 me nearly a year to get the present book through the press, and 

 it now appears in very different style from that in which it 

 would have appeared, had it enjoyed the advantage of superin- 

 tendence by the Asiatic Society's Secretary on the spot. 



